Mike Greenberg won the plum assignment of grilling the wonderfully lispy Bruce Arena about his selections ; presumably Sean Salisbury lost a coin flip.
Goalkeepers :
Tim Howard
Kasey Keller
Marcus Hahnemann
Defenders :
Carlos Bocanegra
Steve Chernudolo
Jimmy Conrad
Cory Gibbs (above)
Frankie Hejduk
Eddie Lewis
Oguchi Onyewu
Eddie Pope
Midfielders
DaMarcus Beasley
Bobby Convey
Clint Dempsey
Landon Donovan
Pablo Mastroeni
John O’Brien
Ben Olsen (above)
Claudio Reyna
Forwards
Brian Ching
Eddie Johnson
Brian McBride
Josh Wolf
Taylor Twellman’s an alternate. Sadly, so is Tony Meola.
I must have missed something…why isn’t Brad Friedel one of the goalkeepers?
he’s been off the U.S. squad for over a year now.
http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200502/s1298205.htm
I think it’s a solid squad all around .. I was happy to see Ching make the cut, but I definitely would have taken Twellman over Wolff .. that said, viva Bruce!